Fat is a feminist issue pdf download

Following the step-by-step guide, and you too can put an end to food anxieties and dieting. Fat is a Feminist Issue, first published 20 years ago, shows how fat is not about food but rather about protection, sex, mothering, strength, assertion, anger, love.

By understanding your investment in being fat, you can turn food into a friend. Describes obesity in females as a response to the inequality of the sexes and offers women guidance in overcoming weight problems through a total reorientation to their bodies and their self-images. Identifies the causes of compulsive eating and offers step-by-step advice on how to change one's attitudes toward food.

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America, and eating problems - from bulimia to obesity - are growing daily, affecting children as young as six.

In China, women are having their legs broken and extended by 5cms. In Iran, behind the Hijab there are 35, cosmetic nose reconstructions a year.

The body is no longer a given and to possess a flawless one has become the ambition of millions. In her years of practice as a psychoanalyst, Susie Orbach has come to realise that the way we view our bodies is the mirror of how we view ourselves: our body becomes the measure of our worth.

In this book, she raises the fundamental questions about how we arrived here and proposes a new theory on how we became embodied. Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist arid writer. She lectures extensively in Europe and North America, is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organizations.

She is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, as well as to radio and television programmes. Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach offer compelling portraits and insightful case histories that explore dependency as a basic human need rather than a sign of weakness. Wolf , The Beauty Myth , Each page contains an easily absorbed bite-sized statement to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms.

This book isn't magic but it feels as if it is. Skip to content. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to feminism, non fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:.